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AFT Impulse 8 Data Sheet
AFT Impulse 8 Data Sheet
AFT Impulse 8 ™
Add-On Modules
The only commercial software solution that Helps identify and avoid resonant
can model both non-settling and settling frequencies in systems, especially in those
slurry waterhammer effects. caused by positive displacement pumps.
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Features
• Built-in steady-state solver to automatically initialize
waterhammer transient
• Compound transient event logic to model complex
control sequences
• Detailed pump inertial modeling for trips and startups
using one quadrant or four quadrant methods
• Extensive cavitation modeling including liquid column
separation
• Scenario Manager to track all design variants and
operational possibilities in a single model file
• Comprehensive modeling of relief valves, surge tanks,
and gas accumulators
• Integrated graphing and reporting
• Animation tools for visual interpretation of complex
transient interactions
• Generates force imbalance files that can be
automatically read into CAESAR II ®, ROHR2, AutoPIPE
and TRIFLEX ® pipe stress dynamic models
• Built-in libraries of fluids (including NIST REFPROP and
ASME Steam Tables) and fittings which can be extended
and customized
Data Integration
• Import piping layouts and dimensional data from
GIS Shapefiles, CAESAR II® Neutral Files, and PCF
files from a wide range of sources
• Import and export files in EPANET format How does it work?
AFT Impulse incorporates a steady-state solver providing
• Robust Excel integration to import and export data
seamless transfer of initial conditions to the transient
analysis. Steady-state solutions are determined using
Newton-Raphson matrix iteration. The traditional
“AFT Impulse”, “Applied Flow Technology”, “Dynamic solutions for a fluid world” and the
AFT logo are trademarks of Applied Flow Technology Corporation. CAESAR II, and ROHR2 Method of Characteristics is used to solve the transient
are third-party products owned and trademarked by their individual corporations.
mass and momentum equations of pipe flow.
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